CVE-2026-85979

Affected versions of Puppet Enterprise contain a command injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with Puppet administrative privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands by providing a specially crafted value for this parameter, which is passed to a shell execution context without sufficient sanitization. Because the resulting commands are executed with root privileges, successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the affected system. It affects Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 through 2023.8.10 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.0.0 through 2025.11.2. This has been resolved in Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.11 and Puppet Enterprise 2025.11.3.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://portal.perforce.com/s/cve/a91Qi000003CybNIAS/command-injection-in-puppet-enterprise

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-09-11 15:17

Updated : 2026-09-16 10:16

NVD link : CVE-2026-85979

Mitre link : CVE-2026-85979

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-85979

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

CWE-78

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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